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If the drop was late January to early February most likely related to Google's PBN update (blog network). A lot of sites have been hit, some cases badly. It is most likely stopped counting the blog network links that were keeping the site at its original position, Google is probably now ignoring or even penalising some or all of these links. The caveat is, due to the nature of the update it is unlikely that disavowing the links will help, probably the best option is to build some new and better ones.

Thats good to hear Thank you for sharing the article, I shall have a read now. Carissa

Thank you both very much for your comments. Very useful! Cheers.

i can i can i can be or do whatever i want dont say i can't do something

Thanks for the answer & confirmation. What if we get back links from different social channels like tumblr, digg, stumbleupon, etc.... Back links from these social discussion forums hurt?

One more question, what about longer meta descriptions> I noticed find law and a lot of others allow longer metas to show in their search results in Google

For reference, with Yoast enabled, you'd expect to see: <title>TITLE</title> http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/23191/how-to-remove-a-meta-description-or-other-head-contents If your theme is supported by a third-party, you can ask them for assistance, of course. If it's not built-in to the theme, it could be another SEO/META plugin causing the duplication, perhaps? - One way to test if it is built in to the theme would be to switch (temporarily) back over to a standard wordpress theme and see if the issue persists. If it's still there, try disabling likely plugins and test. Good Luck!

The first thing I would ask is how you define "legitimate"? If these "legitimate" sites are websites for actual businesses in your industry then the answer to your question is no. It is not a bad idea to get a bunch of links from legitimate websites that have low Moz scores. Moz scores only reveal certain aspects of what makes a good linking site. One aspect moz metrics do not measure is relevance. A relevant site in your industry with low Moz metrics linking to your site can possibly do more benefit to your website for SEO purposes than a non-relevant site, unrelated to your industry, with high Moz metrics. Another consideration to take into account is a site may have low Moz metrics this year but grow to have high Moz metrics in future years. For most realtor websites that are new as you have mentioned, this is likely going to be the case. Getting a link on the site will grow in benefit as the site gains authority and trust with time. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with getting a suitable link on a site with low Moz metrics and there could be great upside future rewards. The potential problem I'm seeing with your strategy though is that there is a strong possibility that the sites that put a link up to your site for the free program will not keep the link on the site for the long-term, especially when the link doesn't make sense on the site and possibly look spammy. Considerations to have the link applied with suitable contextual text that make sense for the linking site will both be more fitting for them and also beneficial for the SEO of your site.

If your products are ranking well for their target keywords, I would try and avoid changing their URLs (especially to a different domain). Keeping on your own domain also helps improve your product rankings when you grow your main website. Not sure how the masking will be set up, but in some cases there is no "internal links" since they are all masked by the root masking domain. This would definitely prevent you from building more links (and further improving your rankings).

Hi Hurf, wow, that's so kind. I've PM'd you separately thanks Paul

Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here. Hm... this sounds like it may be a question for Bright Local's support team. If you have questions about your Moz Local listings, please send us a message at help@moz.com with your questions, and we'll do our best to answer them for you. Thanks!

Your welcome I hope that helps you some.

Don't do it! A change of this magnitude is never going to pay back sufficient dividends; a keyword in your URL is considered a very small ranking factor -  you're also going to need a lot of things to remarkably well to pull this off without taking a hit. The following articles may be of interest to you: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-urls-seo-17889.html https://www.seroundtable.com/google-keywords-in-urls-a-small-ranking-factor-21577.html And see John Mueller (Google)'s comment here: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/x6EZskkV7bM/discussion The idea of a landing page (as Andy suggests) makes much more sense. If you were building this site from scratch then adding the keyword into the url is still a good idea but causing major upheaval (and taking not inconsiderable risks) to shoehorn it in is not. Focus on a creative content experience and you'll find a better way. In many ways, knowing that the URL restructuring isn't the best way to proceed should make finding the right way [a little bit] easier. Good Luck!

But as per the current SEO buzz,  internal nofollow leads of waste of link juice and we cannot preserve it. Moreover some suggests not to use nofollow internally.

Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here! The only way to make bulk checks in Open Site Explorer would be to use our Mozscape API to do those bulk checks! You can read more about the API over in our Help Hub pages, here: https://moz.com/help/guides/moz-api/mozscape/overview It's pretty technical, so you'd likely need a web developer to help you decipher the results you get back. I hope this helps! If you've got questions about the API or how to use it, feel free to send us a note at help@moz.com and we'll sort things out for ya!